Selective transfer manifolding assembly



Feb. 12, 1952 R. w. WINSTON 2,585,418

SELECTIVE TRANSFER MANIFOLDING ASSEMBLY Filed Oct. 29, 1948 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 INVEN TOR.

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SELECTIVE TRANSFER MANIFOLDING ASSEMBLY Filed Oct. 29, 1948 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 Patented Feb. 12, 1952 SELECTIVE TRANSFER MANIFOLD ING ASSEMBLY Rodney W. Winston, Berkeley, =Calif., assignor to Moore Business Forms, Inc., Emeryville, Calif., a corporation of Delaware Application October 29, 1948, Serial No. 57,177

2 Claims.

. 1 This invention relates to improvements in manifolding assemblies, and more particularly to such assemblies including a plurality of record and transfer or carbon sheets bound together in inscription transfer relation in a unitary assembly and arranged so that the record sheets can be quickly and easily selectively detached from the assembly and stripped or decollated from interleaved relation from the transfer sheets.

It is the general object of the invention to provide in a manifolding assembly of the class mentioned, an improved arrangement of a unitary document such, for example, as an insurance policy constructed in at least two parts or sheets bound into the assembly with other record sheets and with transfer sheets so as to be capable of detachment from the assembly binding as a unit with the parts thereof permanently attached together, and so that the unitary document and other record sheets can be selectively detached from the assembly and separated or decollated from the other sheets thereof.

It is another object of the invention to provide in a manifolding assembly of the class mentioned, an improved arrangement of record and transfer sheets whereby certain parts of the data inscribed thereon as by means of a writing machine will be transferred to underlying or copy record sheets but will be prevented from being inscribed on an original document or record sheet, while other data written on the original document will be transferred to the underlying or copy record sheets.

It is a further and more particular object of the invention to provide in a manifolding assembly of the class mentioned, a unitary document necessarily of considerable length such, for example, as an insurance policy and arranged in an improved manner in at least two superposed parts or sheets permanently attached together and bound in the assembly so as to avoid undue length of the latter, the unitary document and other record sheets being quickly and easily detachable from the assembly and separated from the carbon sheets without detaching or otherwise disturbing the attached sheets of the unitary document.

According to another feature of improvement of the invention, the manifolding assembly is provided with a short top auxiliary record sheet forming a flap to effect selective inscriptions on the lower or copy record sheets, and having an aperture through which inscriptions may be entered on an underlying record sheet either manually or by means of a typewriter or other writing machine.

Another object of the invention is to provide in a manifolding assembly of the class mentioned, an improved arrangement of record and transfer .s heets, a selective inscription flap and a unitary document such as an insurance policy made in at least two parts or sheets permanently attached together so as to avoid undue length of the complete assembly, the assembly being constructed and arranged so that the insurance policy or other. document may be completely filled in or inscribed with data at asingle insertion of the assembly in the typewriter or like writing machine.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be in part pointed out in the following detailed disclosure of an illustrative but preferred embodiment of the invention, and will be in part obvious as the disclosure proceeds.

The invention accordingly comprises the features of construction, combination of elements, and arrangement of parts, which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

For amore comprehensive disclosure of the nature, objects and advantages of the invention, references had to the following detailed description of the illustrative embodiment, and to the accompanying drawings in which,

Fig. 1 is top perspective view of a manifolding assembly embodying the invention, the assembly sheets being shown as slightly separated so as to disclose the structure and arrangement more clearly.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to that of Fig. 1 but showing the selective inscription sheet or flap in raised position.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged partially diagrammatic perspective view of the improved manifolding assembly, and

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view corresponding to the right-hand edge of Figure 3 but showing an-alternative form of the invention.

Referring to the drawing for a. detailed description or the illustrative embodiment of the invention, the manifolding assembly includes two sheets I and 2 of paper or like material connected together by appropriate means such as a line of adhesive 3. These two sheets are thus permanently connected together to form a unitarydocument which in the present embodiment is shown as an insurance policy. Ordinarily, such a document is of considerable length and in order that it may be sufficiently short to be bound into a manifoldin-g assembly the policy is divided into two sheets .I and] and permanently 3 connected together at 3. The sheet I is the principal part of the insurance policy, having the name of the insurance company printed thereon and having blank spaces or blank forms 4 with appropriate printed headings for receiving the name of the insured, the amount of the policy, the rate, the premium, a description of the property insured, and other data. This sheet may carry printed matter on both sides thereof specifying the stipulations and conditions of the insurance agreement. The sheet 1 as shown is preferably slightly longer than sheet 2 and the other record sheets of the assembly, providing the extension at its lower end having a blank form or blank spaces 5 for receiving the signatures. At its upper end the sheet I is provided with a blank form 6 and a space I in which the name of the insurance company is printed. The space occupied by the blank form 6 and the name i may be termed the title panel of the insurance policy or similar unitary document, being exposed at the outside when the policy is folded after being completely filled in with the data. The part or sheet 2 of the policy may also be printed upon both sides thereof and may have some blank forms thereon for receiving data to be filled in subsequently to the completion of the policy, such as a subsequent assignment of the policy and other data that does not appear either upon the sheet I or upon the underlying record sheets of the assembly. Hence there is ordinarily no transfer sheet between the parts i and 2 of the insurance policy.

' Underlying the insurance policy formed by the record sheets I and 2 are additional or copy record sheets 8 substantially the same width as the sheets I and 2 but preferably as shown slightly shorterithan sheet I. These copy record sheets have blank spaces or forms with headings similar to those on the upper surface of the record'she'etjl which forms the principal part of the insurance policy. There may be as, many of thesecopy record sheets 8 as desired, four being shown inthe illustrative embodiment, one being forv the. agents copy of the insurance policy, another being for the head office of the company, and'the'other two for the branch ofiices or for other purposes.

. Interleaved in transfer relation between the adjacent copy record sheets 8 and between the upper sheet 8 and the sheet 2 of the policy are transfer or carbon sheets 9 preferably carbonized onlyon the lower surfaces thereof as indicated at I ll. Thus it will be seen that when inscriptions are made on the blank forms or spaces 4 of the record sheet I bya typewriter or, similar writing machine or by hand, such inscriptions willbe transferred to the copy record sheets 8 by the transfer sheets 9 All of the record and transfer sheets are bound by appropriate binding means into the assembly binding H. The sheets are preferably bound in this binding by means of lines or stripes l2 of adhesive, binding all of the sheets together in the assembly as best shown in Fig. 3 in which this binding is shown diagrammatically, the record and carbon sheets being shown abnormally spaced apart so as to disclose the construction and arrangement more clearly. The sheets are normallyin close face to face contact with each other in the completed assembly. The record sheets I and 2 and the copy record sheets 8 are formed at their upper or forward ends with bindmg extensions or stubs 13 to which the adhesiyg ill a is applied. The copy record sheets 8 are provided with transverse weakened severance lines such as perforated or slitted lines 14 extending along the binding H along which these record sheets may be severed. Also the record sheets I and 2 of the unitary document are provided with weakened severance lines l5 similar to the severance lines l4 and similarly positioned. It will be noted that the weakened severance lines 14 of the record sheets 8 are positioned inside of the adhesive attachments l2 of the binding but that the weakened severance lines l5 of the record sheets I and 2 are positioned outside of the adhesive attachment 3 attaching the sheets I and 2 together. But the binding extensions or stubs l3 of the record sheets i and 2 preferably extend into the assembly binding H, although they may not be directly attached together in the binding H as shown in Fig. 3. The purpose of this structure is more fully described below. It is desirable in some cases to connect the binding stubs I 3 of the sheets I and 2 together outside of the attachment 3 and spaced from the latter by a stripe of adhesive similar to the stripes l2."

Positioned above the record sheet I of the policy is an auxiliary record sheet or flap l6 also bound in the binding H by adhesive means and being considerably shorter than the other record sheets. This flap I8 is provided with blank forms 11 positioned adjacent to its lower extremity for receiving original inscription directly from the writing machine. The data to be inscribed on the forms H is not to appear upon theoriginal copy of the insurance policy but isto be transferred to the copies thereof upon the copy record sheets 8. Therefore there is no carbon or. transfer vmaterial between the formsll-and the sheets i and 2 of the policy but data inscribed on these forms will be transferred to the copies of-the policy by means of the transfer sheets- I I The auxiliary record sheet [6 is formed with an aperture 58 positioned to overlie the blank form 5 of the policy sheet I when the flap is in its normal operative position as shownin Fig. 1. This aperture l3 serves as an inscribing opening through which data may be inscribed upon the blank form .6 and transferred to the underlying copy sheets 8 by means of the transfer sheets.

It will be noted that the auxiliary record sheet or flap i6 is permanently attached to the binding, H, and therefore is not provided with any weakened severance line along the binding and corresponding to the weakened severance lines I4 and iii of the assembly record sheets. If desired, the auxiliary flap 16 may be provided with a weakened severance line H) extending thereacross by means of which the lower end of the sheet carrying the blank form 11 can be severed in cases where data is not to be inscribed upon this part of the sheet. Also, the copy record sheets 8 may be provided with transverse weakened severance lines 20 extending thereacross and positioned substantially in depthwise alignment with the lower edge of the section of the policy sheet I carrying the blank form Sand the company name I. These weakened severance lines 26 provide means whereby the upper ends of the copies of the policy may be severed in" cases where it is not required to retain this data upon the copies. Ordinarily the weakened severance lines 20 will be sg e hat st o er than the weakened severance lines I4 adjacent to the binding II so that when a pull is exerted upon these sheets 8 to sever them from the assembly as described below, the severance will occur along the weaker lines I-i leaving the stronger lines 26 intact. Severance along the stronger lines 20 may be later effected as desired.

At the free end of the assembly remote from the binding II, the copy record sheets 8 extend somewhat beyond the adjacent ends of the transfer sheets 9 so as to provide a selective grip formation 2! whereby the record sheets may be selectively gripped to the exclusion of the transfer sheets for selectively severing the record sheets, as more fully described below. Also, the record sheet I of the insurance policy extends at its free end beyond the adjacent ends of the transfer sheets whereby it can be selectively gripped with the record sheets 8 and severed at the same time therewith. Ordinarily, the second 'part of the unitary document or policy formed by the sheet 2 is considerably shorter than the sheet I and also shorter than the copy sheets 8 and the carbon sheets although it may, if desirable, extend at its free end beyond the adjacent ends of the carbon sheets.

From the foregoing disclosure, it will be seen that inscriptions made upon the sheet I of the unitary document or policy, or upon the auxiliary record sheet I 5 will be transferred to the copy record sheets 8 by the transfer sheets 9. But such inscriptions will not be transferred to the sheet 2 of the policy. Data written upon the blank form 6 of the title panel of the policy is entered through the inscribing opening I8 of the auxiliary record sheet I6 and this data will be transferred to the underlying parts of the copy record sheets 8. The data written on the blank forms I! of the auxiliary record sheet will be selectively transferred to the copy record sheets 8 but will not appear on either part I or 2 of the insurance policy.

It will be noted that all of the data necessary to be written upon the policy or on the copy record sheets can be written at a single insertion of the complete assembly in the writing machine. The assembly is entered into the writing machine with its binding II in advance and the inscriptions are written beginning at the top of the blank form 6 and progressively entered on the blank forms ll of the auxiliary record sheet and the main blank form 4 of the insurance policy thus completing the entire writing operation by single progressive advance movement, line by line, of the assembly through the writing machine. The completion of the insurance policy and the necessary copies is thus greatly facilitated.

After the data has been completely written on the assembly as described, the record sheets including the policy sheets I and 2 may be very quickly and easily separated from the binding I I and stripped or decollated from the carbon sheets 9 and the auxiliary record sheet I6. This can be accomplished by simultaneously gripping the assembly at the binding outside of the weakened severance lines I 4 and I5 and at the selective grip formation 2| and exerting a quick pull thus causing the record sheets to be severed from the binding along the weakened severance lines It and I5, while the carbon sheets 9 and the auxiliary record sheet I6 remains attached to the binding and may be discarded therewith. During this severing action both record sheets I and 2 of the unitary document will be severed along the weakened severance lines I5 thereof even though the severing ,pull is exerted only upon-the full length record sheet I, because the lower record sheet 2 is not gripped in the selective grip formation because of its-shorter length. But the severing action-will be exerted on the weakened severance lines I5 ofv the sheet 2 because the sheets I and 2 are firmlyand permanently connected together by the attachment 3. Thus it will be seen that the unitary document formed by the two record sheets I and 2 will be de-. tached from the assembly as a unit, and these two sheets will remain permanently connected to gether after severance to form the unitary in.- surance policy. After severance and separation from the assembly the copy record sheets 8 may, if desired, be severed along the weakened severance lines 29 thereof to remove the top sections, and the otherparts of these inscribed sheets may be distributed to the parties for whom they are made. After the unitary document or policy formed by the record sheets I and 2 has been inscribed and severed from the assembly as set forth, it may be signed by the parties and folded along transverse lines so as to expose at the outside of the folded document the title panel having the inscribed form 6 and the name or title 1 of the policy.

Since certain changes may be made in the above construction and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained inthe above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

The invention having thus been fully described. the following is claimed. I

1. In a manifolding assembly, in combination, a plurality of record sheets, and transfer sheets interposed between certain of said record sheets, binding means along one edge of the assembly serving to at least temporarily secure adjacent co-terminous superposed edges of said record and transfer sheets together, said binding means including a permanent attachment between two of the upwardly disposed record sheets which have no transfer sheet between them, said permanent attachment being disposed adjacent said assembly edge but spaced slightly therefrom, said last named two record sheets thus forming a unitary document; all of said record sheets extending outwardly beyond the outer edges of said transfer sheets whereby there is provided means for simultaneously detaching all of said record sheets including said document and the underlying ones from the binding means and de-collating them from the transfer sheets while the transfer sheets remain attached to said binding means, said permanent attachment retaining said two document sheets permanently together after detachment thereof from said binding means by operation of said detaching means, said perma nent attachment being the sole means for connecting the two sheets of said unitary document; and an auxiliary record sheet bound in said binding means and positioned at the top of the assembly immediately above the upper sheet of said unitary document without any transfer sheet between them, said auxiliary rec- 0rd sheet having an appropriately designated record-receiving space positioned above said document and so that inscriptions made thereon will be selectively transferred to record sheets underlying said document and above each of which underlying sheets a transfer sheet is disposed, but will be omitted from both sheets of said unitary document; said auxiliary record sheet having the inscribing opening through which original inscriptions may be made directly on the upper sheet of said document, said last named original inscriptions also being transferred to underlying record sheets but not to the second sheet of said unitary document.

2. In a manifolding assembly, in combination, a plurality of record sheets, and transfer sheets interposed between certain of said record sheets, a binding along one edge of the assembly in which adjacent co-terminous superposed edges of all of said record and transfer sheets are bound, each of said record sheets being provided with weakened lines adjacent and parallel to said binding forming separable binding stubs at the margins of each of said record sheets, a permanent attachment between two of the upwardly disposed record sheets which have no transfer sheet between them, said last named two record sheets thus forming a unitary document, the upper one of said two sheets having a title panel thereon, said upper document sheets extending outwardly beyond the outer edges of the other record sheets, and all of said record sheets extending beyond the outer edges of the transfer sheets, whereby there are provided means for selectively detaching some of said record sheets from the binding and decollating them from other sheets including the transfer sheets while the transfer sheets and stubs of the detached record sheets remain attached to the binding, said permanent attachment being positioned adjacent to but exteri- 3 orly of said binding for retaining said two document sheets permanently attached together after detachment thereof from the stubs by operation of said detaching means, said stubs remaining in the binding, and an auxiliary record sheet bound in said binding and positioned at the top of the assembly immediately above the upper sheet of said unitary document without any transfer sheet between them, said auxiliary record sheet having an appropriately designated record-receiving space positioned above said document and so that inscriptions made thereon will be selectively transferred to record sheets underlying said document and above each of which underlying sheets a transfer sheet is disposed but will be omitted from said unitary document, said auxiliary record sheet having an inscribing opening aligned with said title panel of said unitary document through which original inscriptions may be made directly on said panel, said last named original inscriptions also being transferred to underlying record sheets but not to the second sheet of said unitary document, said auxiliary record sheet being permanently attached to said binding so as to remain attached thereto with the transfer sheets and record sheet stubs after the other record sheets have been detached from the binding by operation of said detaching means.

RODNEY W. WINSTON.

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